Comic Artie Lange, finest identified for his Howard Stern Present and Mad TV appearances, is as soon as once more within the highlight — this time for what seems to be a reconstructed nostril.
The 58-year-old — who has been open about his struggles with alcohol, cocaine and different substances — appeared in a photograph just lately shared on X, in what the U.S. Solar reviews is his first public sighting in 5 years.
Within the photograph, Lange is pictured alongside fellow comedians Jeff Ross, Dave Juskow, Rachel Feinstein and Amanda Gail, in addition to his sister, Stacey Lange. The depressed nostril the comic has spoken publicly about prior to now seems to be mounted within the pic.
“Individuals ask me silly questions like, ‘What occurred to your nostril?’ I’m like, ‘An excessive amount of yoga. I ended to scent the roses in life, they usually had cocaine on them,’” Lange joked in a video shared in September to the Legion of Skanks Podcast YouTube channel. Lange stated that he deliberate to “get the nostril mounted ultimately,” including that he would want a rhinoplasty.
He opened that podcast by declaring that he was “eight months clear and sober” on the time.
He additionally shared a narrative about how he as soon as by chance snorted glass.
“I used to be with this broad in St. Louis at this good lodge, and we had been snorting OxyContin, and you bought to crack the OxyContin up and make it into positive powder to snort it,” he started.
Lange defined that the lady he was with used a glass salt shaker to interrupt up the OxyContin, a powerful opioid used to handle extreme ache.
As the lady was grinding the Oxy right down to a powder, “The glass breaks,” Lange stated. “She makes it actual, actual positive. She will get known as to the entrance desk, and I come out. I see the traces, and I snorted them, and it was like a zipper… It went proper up my nostril, and it began to bleed.”
“So, you understand, if children are listening,” he added, “don’t try this.”
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